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I bought this for $20. Anyone know what it was modded for. The hose in the middle has a metal stopper at then end with no opening.

I read about corks and corkers for a week before I ordered the corks from Northern Brewer with my order and then another week passed before I ordered the corker from eBay. My wife got tired of watching me read about corkers and corks and suggested I just buy the expensive one and be done with...

I've been brewing for 7 years or so. I do fade in and out of it. I've done all three. While I have made a gruit and am about to make another, I mostly stick to hoppy and dark beers with the occasional wheat or rye thrown in. I have very little interest in any lagers or light beers outside of...

I ordered a Plinian Legacy kit from NB. It says it is a 6 gallon batch due to trub. I have 6 gallon carboys, but I think that would result in a lot of lost beer from the blow off tube. If I brew it at the 5 gallon level for a day or two and then wait for the krausen to subside and then...

I made an Irish stout kit that I've had sitting around. I used S04. I pitched a tad bit warm (80s) and then went to get my tub to put it in water to keep it cooling. By the time I got around to bringing the tub in, it was bubbling pretty steadily. I'm talking 15-30 minutes. This morning it...

A place that I shop at has 8-packs of unused surplus glass petri dishes for $6.99 3 7/8" diam and 3/4" tall. It seems like a good deal. I will probably order some on my next order with them. If I was going to post a link for it, where would I do it? It wouldn't go in the for sale forum...

I know yeast, like any other product, has a best before date. I have used yeast outside of this date with success. I imagine many of you have too. I realize that viability goes down as the yeast ages. I found this article...

If there is one universal truth in history, it is that the human race has never went a lifetime, or even a decade, without a major catastrophe. Whether it be wars, famine, plagues, genocides, inflation, shortages, recessions, depressions, natural disasters, ect. It might not hit the whole...

I have some honey that I have had for a while in a glass jar. 2-3 years old maybe. It is local wildflower honey. I ate half the quart previously and I don't really remember it being bitter but I am not sure. I have so many different types of honey that I really don't know. Anyway, it wasn't...

I have been playing with some bottles of apple juice. I have been fermenting some in the bottles to test a recipe. I have kegs and I don't have a problem killing the yeast off, backsweetening and then carbing so this is just a theory and not something that I have to do. I don't use a airlock...

We have all done it. Left a bottle of juice in the refrigerator and noticed it weeks, months, or "when the hell did I buy this" later. I was cleaning my fridge out and noticed a bottle of apple juice that was bulged out. Normal people just throw it away. I started looking at it. Crystal...

So, I bought a 1/4 keg of Yuengling because I needed a keg and I had people coming over Sat. My homebrew went over better than I thought and I now have a lot of Yuengling sitting in my kegerator. Particularly "The Innkeeper" from Northern Brewer and some cider I had. This isn't an issue...

Ok, first on the bashing of Woodchuck cider. Woodchuck is alchopop icky. Ew. Whatever.:) Lots of people like Woodchuck, and it isn't hard to see why. It is common, extremely approachable, sweet, and it goes good in a black velvet. I have made a cider or two before, and a lot of the...

I couldn't find much actually helpful stuff while searching on the web for fixing fridges and the like. I bought a True kegerator that needs fixed. I was told it was one of the coils. I know a little about this stuff, and I already ordered some parts. I am going to cover troubleshooting it...

Well, I decided to build a new kegerator. I started looking, and I decided to get the Sanyo one that everyone raves about. I found one on CL, emailed them, and hadn't got a reply. I saw a half dozen within 50 miles for around $50 of the 4912m model. I figured that I would be about $150 or so...

I ordered two used Corney kegs today, and 2 gasket sets. I never changed any gaskets on any of the dozen kegs I had before, but I figured for $7 including shipping that I might as well order the o-ring sets. I wasn't sure what I had kept and what I had sold. So I dug through my totes and I...

I found this on ebay and thought I'd pass it on. If it was local for me, I'd definitely get them. Says they have 10 cases and it is in Rocklin, California. Pickup only. http://www.ebay.com/itm/BEER-BOTTLES-NEW-22-OZ-CASE-OF-12-/160649452181?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2567741a95

I have a few questions. I have been reading and I got most of it, but maybe I am not asking the right questions sometimes. I am planning to make a lot of beer in a short amount of time and yeast reuse came up in my thoughts a lot. They aren't all things I would do, some are just what ifs. 1)...

Just thought I would drop a line that Wal-Mart has a display of different apple juices for $2 per 64 oz bottle. They had Gala, Granny Smith, and Honey crisp varieties. 100% juice from concentrate. The granny smith almost tastes like a green apple jolly rancher to be honest. I got 2 of each...

Now, it is hard to say whether this is real or not. I haven't researched it yet, but I find it pretty interesting and a little funny. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/17/223345977/auto-brewery-syndrome-apparently-you-can-make-beer-in-your-gut This medical case may give a whole...